Church History 6.27.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Firmilian, Alexander, and Theoctistus honoured Origen as their teacher.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:272–273

τοσαύτην εἰσάγων περὶ τὸν Ὠριγένην σπουδὴν ὡς τοτὲ μὲν αὐτὸν ἀμφὶ τὰ κατʼ αὐτὸν κλίματα εἰς τὴν τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ὠφέλειαν ἐκκαλεῖσθαι, τοτὲ δὲ ὡς αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰουδαίαν στέλλεσθαι, καί τινας αὐτῷ συνδιατρίβειν χρόνους, τῆς εἰς τὰ θεῖα βελτιώσεως ἕνεκα. οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ τῆς Ιεροσολύμων προεστὼς Ἀλέξανδρος, Θεόκτιστός τε ὁ κατὰ Καισάρειαν, τὸν πάντα χρόνον ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν προσανέχοντες αὐτῷ οἷα διδασκάλῳ μόνῳ, τὰ τῆς τῶν θείων γραφῶν ἑρμηνείας καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τοῦ ἐκκλησιαστικοῦ λόγου πράττειν συνεχώρουν.

English · Claude translation

who showed such regard for Origen that at one time he invited him to his own region for the benefit of the churches, and at another went himself to Judaea and stayed with him for some time for his improvement in divine things. Moreover Alexander, who presided over Jerusalem, and Theoctistus of Caesarea, attended on him the whole time, so to speak, as their only teacher, and allowed him to undertake the interpretation of the divine Scriptures and the other parts of church teaching.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:272–273 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Topics

Church office, Scripture and canon

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.27.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/27/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.27.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/27/1/).